Posted in Links on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Clio Wired: The Theory and Practice of Digital History
digital history syllabus–”classwork consists of weekly writing on your blog, commentary on other students’ blogs, and a semester project: to envision and plan a digital historical resource”. people get class credit for these things? awesome.
(tags: digitalhistory academic history internet)
if:book: tab, tab, tab
on the prevalence of concurrent & [...]
Posted in Current Issues, Miscellany, Reflection, Thought Drafts on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve officially joined HNN’s Cliopatria, whose introduction to me includes a hitherto unknown fact (yes, even to me!) that I am, so to speak, the baby of the group: Cliopatria’s youngest member. As I intimated to Ralph Luker, I am suddenly fraught with a certain sense of dread that whatever grotesque naiveties I post on [...]
Posted in Bookporn on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
admittedly, this is nowhere near as glamorous as, say, gonville & caius, but I grew up in this library! — & you know how nostalgia makes things special. Besides, I am returning to Cambridge in approximately a week, and will miss this trembling chaos of books at home — the one place in the world [...]
Posted in Current Issues, Reading, Thought Drafts on August 25, 2007 | 9 Comments »
a passage on the decay of Athenian democracy by Thucydides — brace yourself, it’s fairly long, and I am editing for clarity:
In those days it was impossible for any man to give good and profitable counsel for the commonwealth, and not incur the displeasure of the people … [The only men who] swayed the assemblies, [...]
Posted in Links on August 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Rilke on the Web: An Annotated Compendium
link-filled goodness on rainer maria rilke, whose poetry I am embarking on
(tags: rilke poetry links)
Posted in Bookporn on August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
so, remember the thai strip-style books? This is the rich man’s version — in fact, the royal version. Instead of bamboo, the book is made of pale green-white jade; it’s tied together with gold wire rather than rope or twine; and the words are carved into the jade and FILLED IN WITH GOLD. This jade [...]
Posted in Bookporn on August 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Made a brief excursion (pilgrimage) to Seattle Public Library, which is essentially Bill Gates’ money made manifest — and it shows. The place is colossal, modern, tech-savvy. It’s, in fact, almost too slick to be bookpornographic. There’s such a vast, tasteful sense of space that the well-spaced, neat arrays of books are more Victoria’s Secret [...]
Posted in Links on August 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
When Insults Had Class
yes, yes!
(tags: funny snark)
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awesome evolution-themed street art! I love the way they make use of the space & incorporate it into the design — I wonder which way round it happened; which came first: did the idea dictate the choice of space, or did the space [...]
Posted in Links on August 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Skydiver plans head-first freefall from the edge of space in dizzying bid to break Mach 1 | the Daily Mail
what? what? why do people do these things? also, why I am I strangely tempted? also, best headline leader ever: “But he must wear a special suit to ensure his body fluids don’t boil” (via clioweb)
(tags: [...]
Posted in Bookporn on August 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
so, I love this for purely personal & certainly fanciful reasons — with half the wall dedicated to well-stocked bookshelves and the other half dedicated to images & iconic fragments of art and popular culture, it struck me as the process of book-writing made manifest: all these myriad books surrounded by, fed by a swarm [...]
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